In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

The service‐oriented computing (SOC) paradigm has recently gained a lot of attention in the
software industry because SOC represents a novel and a fresh way of architecting …

Service‐oriented development is challenging mainly because Web service developers tend
to disregard the importance of the exposed service APIs, which are specified using Web …

Service–Oriented Computing (SOC) allows developers to structure applications as a set of
reusable services. Web Services expose their functionality by using Web Service …

Moving from mainframe systems to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using Web
services is an attractive but daunting task. The bottom-up or direct-migration approach …

Abstract Service interface is a critical component in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As
first-class design artifact, a service interface should be properly designed to provide best …

Web Service discovery and selection deal with the retrieval of the most suitable Web
Service, given a required functionality. Addressing an effective solution remains difficult …

Design defects are symptoms of poor design and implementation solutions adopted by
developers during the development of their software systems. While the research community …

A key success of a Web service is to appropriately design its interface to make it easy to
consume and understand. In the context of service-oriented computing (SOC), the service's …

In the service-oriented paradigm, Web service interfaces are considered contracts between
Web service subscribers and providers. The structure of service interfaces has an extremely …